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(No Model) M. E. MGGLOSKEY. Now by marriage M. E. MCG. PLAYTEB..

CORSET STEEL.

Patented June 8,1897.

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UNITED .STATES PATENT @rrrcn MARY ELLEN MCCLOSKEY, (NOV BY MARRIAGE MARY ELLEN HCCLOSKEY PLAYTER,) OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

CORSET-STEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,923, dated June 8, 1897'.

`Application led November 14, 1894. Serial No. 528,837. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY ELLEN McCLos- KEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corset-Steels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being y had to the accompanying drawings, making lo a part of this specilication, in which- Figures l and 2 are front views of corsetsteels and adjuncts illustrative of inyinvention, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View of such a steel.

I 5 This invention comprises as a new and improved article of manufacture a corset-steel which comprises a novel and useful combination of parts, hereinafter particularized in the claim, whereby great simplicity and strength zo of construction, durability, and adaptability to all the vicissitudes and contingencies of use are secured.

For convenience of description, Figs. l and 2 show duplicates of the corset-steel A, ar-

2 5 ranged in the usual parallel relation with each other at the opening at the frontof the corset.

Each steel consists of two springs a and b, placed ilatwise one against the other, as more 3o fully shown in Fig. 3. These springs, except as hereinafter spec-ideally set forth, are of the usual or of any suitable size, shape, and material. In one end of the spring a is a slot a?, (shown in detail in Fig. 2,) and in the op- 3 5 posite end of the spring h is a similar slot h. The unslotted end co2 of spring (L laps. over and past the slot b' of the spring b and, conversely, the unslottedIend b2 of the spring o laps over the slot a' of the spring a. Riveted,

4o as at e2, or otherwise made fast upon the unslotted end a2 of the spring a is a cap c of such shape and capacity as to admit within it the slotted end of the spring b. In like manner fast upon the unslotted end b2 of the spring h is a similar cap d, into which extends the slotted end of thespring a. The proportions are such that the slotted end of each spring is capable of a free longitudinal movement within the cap of the opposite spring. Ex-

5o tended through each cap and also through the slot of the part movable therein, as just described, is a pin c. These pins prevent the escape of the ends of the spring from the caps and provide for the retention of the two springs, the one upon or in contact llatwise 5 5 against the other, without interference with their longitudinal play one upon the other when the corset to which the steels are provided is in use.

The steels being, as hereinbefore stated, attached in the usual or in any suitable manner to the open part of a corset may at the'edges of such front be provided with loops f on one steel,which engage with studs f on the adjacent steel to connect said edges when the corset is in use.

When the wearer of a corset provided with steels made according to my invention bends forward, the two springs slide upon each other to an extent which enables the steel as a whole to conform to the new curvature induced by the change of position, and Without the endwise compression which by accentuating the pressure along the Waist-line would induce .fracture thereat, so that by reason of 7 the special construction hereinbefore described my improved corset-steel is espe cially adapted for use under those conditions in which the wearer is compelled to stoop or bend forward,which with the corset-steels in common use tends to fracture the steels at their lower ends or along the waist-line of the corset.

By the novel combination of parts comprised in my invention I am able to preserve the integrity and elasticity of the steels under conditions of use which rapidly destroy the steels in corsets as heretofore made.

1Whatl claim as my invention is A corset-steel comprising the two springs, a, and, b, applied flatwise one upon the other, each provided at one end with a slot the slotted end of one placed opposite the unslotted end of the other and caps, c, d, fixed to the unslotted ends of the springs, and pins, 9 5 e, extended through the caps and through the slots of the springs to confine the latter in due relation with each other Without hindering a sliding movement of the springs one upon the other when the curvature of the steel 1 oo is chan ged-the whole arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

, MARY ELLEN MOGLOSKEY.

lVitnesses Cnals'rornnn D. MALANEY, PHILrr REILLY. 

